Re: Silent install Solid Edge ST10

Please review the Solid Edge ST10 readme file -- all of the details on performing a multi-version install and performing a silent install can be found there. From that readme file....

Multiple Installations

Multiple versions of Solid Edge are now allowed to be installed concurrently for testing core Solid Edge in a non-production environment. (Add-on products, such as Mold Tooling or Teamcenter Integration for Solid Edge (SEEC) or Solid Edge SP will not work.) The older version(s) must be installed first, and then ST10 must be installed silently. To switch between versions, you have to activate the version you want to use, and this is done with a new program called “SESetActiveVersion.exe”. The program is located on the installation media in the folder \Solid Edge\SptTools\SESetActiveVersion. You can run the program from any location. In the dialog box, select the version you want to use then select “Activate”; when the dialog box goes away the selected version is ready to be used. If a maintenance pack needs to be applied, be sure to activate the appropriate version of Solid Edge prior to the MP installation.

Note: Multiple version installations are not supported for production use. GTAC will only verify problems using a single version installation, as well as Development will only address problems that are reproducible using a single version installation. Multiple version installations are to be used only for comparing basic Solid Edge functionality for the purposes of demonstration or pre-upgrade testing. If you need to run multiple versions in a production environment Virtual Machine configurations are the recommended method. When moving to production, we recommend that you remove all versions, reboot the system, and then install a single product version.

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Silent (or Remote) Installations

The following is a complete command line argument set for silently installing Solid Edge. Silent installation needs to run from an elevated command prompt (such as, command window "Run as Administrator"). Setup no longer supports the use of the ADDLOCAL property. All arguments should be enclosed in double quotes if there are spaces in the paths.

The MSI Property MYTEMPLATE indicates which templates are to be installed. If no value is specified, Solid Edge uses the setting from the Standard.ini file. The default in the Standard.ini file is “Auto”. For “Auto”, the templates will set based on the current user’s “Region and Language Format” setting.

The argument "qn+" instructs the Windows installer to provide NO user interface and alert the user at the completion of the setup with a dialog box. Refer to the Windows help system for further information about Windows Installer arguments. Leaving this argument off the command line will display the setup user interface with selections made and fields provided. Note: if you are using this option some installations that require user interaction could fail.

The argument "l*v" tells the Windows installer to create a log file of important messages, warnings and errors and write it to the location provided, in this example, C:\temp\mysilentsetup.log. If you have silent installation errors, add the following argument to your command line and review the resulting log file: /L*v "%TEMP%\install.log"

Here are more instructions for using the /L option (note that the path MUST exist):/L [i|w|e|a|r|u|c|m|o|p|v|x|+|!|*] Log fileWrites logging information into a log file at the specified existing path. The path to the log file location must already exist, or the installer will not write the log file. Flags indicate which information to log. If no flags are specified, the default is /l*.i - Status messages.w - Nonfatal warnings.e - All error messages.a - Start up of actions.r - Action-specific records.u - User requests.c - Initial UI parameters.m - Out-of-memory or fatal exit information.o - Out-of-disk-space messages.p - Terminal properties.v - Verbose output.x - Extra debugging information.+ - Append to existing file.! - Flush each line to the log.KB2555189"*" - Wildcard, log all information except for the v and x options. To include the v and x options, specify "/l*vx".